The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-04
CFrOm Mondays Daily Free PressJ


DIR. Halves will be in his Office until
the 10th of the month. All those wish
ing his professional service should call
early as he is driven with work.
Mr.. Glockzin, an old man sixty-four
years old, died at his residence four
miles east of Mankato on the GAINESVILLE
road Friday and was buried at GAINESVILLE
yesterday.
The Board of Trade did not hold a
meeting this morning, the committee IN
charge of certain important business not
being ready to report. A meeting Will
be held next Monday.
Geo Lidgerwood reports that his
town is to have newspaper within a
week or two. When the journal is once
successfully launched there will be no
further discount on the city of Lidger-
wood.
The new Patterson-Hoerr block be-
gins 10 put on finished look. 1t is one
of the most handsome buildings along
Front street and the improvement it
makes to the appearance of its immedi-
ate locality is great indeed.
Now that the leaves are off the trees
the stroller gets much better idea of
the amount of building that has been
done this season. New houses and i'm
provements to old ones are seen on all
sides, especially in the newer outlying
additions.
MIR. w. p. Coffin, as administrator
for the estate of E. B. HAYNES, deceased,
ran across an old Masonic relic among
the property left by the latter. 1t was
a Free Mason almanac and calendar
printed in 1898 while Washington was
President of the United States. 1t has
considerable interest in the eyes of the
Masons.
Hall & Coffin report the following
sales: lots TO ID and lot 81, Dickinson's
addition, for d. A. Dickinson to L. ID.
Saylor, for $40 cash; also lot 10, block
4, Prospect Heights addition, for Hall q
Willard to u. W. Craig, for $275. Sales
in Prospect Heights addition are only
made. as rule, to parties who viii
build, and a good class of residents if
locating there.
On Saturday afternoon in company
with James Chapman and Will Shepard
Fred Burgess went out cunning up the
river. As the trio was returning home
the gun that Fred was carrying acciden
tally discharged and he received the
charge of shot in the 1eshy part of the
left arm, making very ugly although
not dangerous wound. 1t will lay the
lad up two or three weeks, and this to
gether with the loss of toe last summer
resulting from like accident, may learr
Fred that he had better lay aside fire
arms and take up the tomahawk or some
other harmless instrument.
Rev. Jones, of the Welsh church
church, has accepted call to Minneap
oils and will leave for there next Febru
airy. He has been the minister at thu
Mankato, Zion and Carmel churches TO
nearly five years.
H. P. Christensen has purchased o
Frank Gramer the east } of lot 5, blocl
s, Wait & Rolfson's addition; also the
south A feet of the east of lot 4, blocl
s of the same addition.
"A boy named George Eckman me
with an accident at the Cement Work
this forenoon. The boy was employed
in driving horse in one of the tunnels
In the dark the animal stumbled ant
before the boy could get out of the wa
he was struck by one of the horses fee
which tore the flesh from his leg max
ing quite painful wound. No bone
were broken, however, and there j
nothing dangerous in the character Q
the injury.
Mr.. John Graham, road commits
sioner for the district west of Goo,
Thunder, has a model piece of road 70
one mile west of that town. 1t is pro
nounced to be as good as any in thi
; city and was formed without very muc
labor Any of the road commissioner
could do the same and the condition c
the roads would be greatly improved
1t would pay some of the other commits
sioners to take ride ont that way.
Mr.. II. P. Christensen has purchase
. the interests of Geo. A. Clarke and
M. Barcley in Huf's Point. Lake Mad
son, and now owns an undivided tive
thirds interest in it, Norman A. Kuhi
l of Omaha, owning the rest. The poiI
is located just east Of Point Pleasant an
its name has been changed TO Fair Poin
The property will be plated and put O
: the market. There is probability Of
! fine hotel being erected on the poiI
: and broad drives will extend TO tn
= station, skirting the lake. This point
d about an equal distance from the dep
! as Point Pleasant. Mr.. Christense
says that he will boom things next yea
o Though there is nothing in preset
9 appearances to warrant it, the wealth,
wiseacres foretell an unusually storm
November. The temperature will, the
announce, show great extremes, varyil
from moist, warm winds and hea,
a rains to cutting blasts, sharp frosts al
( deep snowfalls. The Northern Stat
:, are expected to be visited by the co
= and snow, and severe weather for Il
= laka raoiOn ia IN rt,n oaxy fhaso ,rn1